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BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
Balmiki Prasad Singh
Born on January 1, 1942 (India)
Married to Ms. Karuna Singh, three children |
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Master of Arts, (Pol. Sci.):
Patna University; Patna, India, First in
First Class with record marks and several
gold medals. Became Lecturer in
Post-Graduate Department of Political
Science, Patna University at the age of 19
years. Master of Arts from Oxford
University, United Kingdom |
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Joined the Indian
Administrative Service in 1964. Postings
held in the Indian State of Assam during
64-75 Was S.D.O., North-Lakhimpur (1966-68),
Joint Secretary appointment (1968-70),
Deputy Commissioner, Darrang, Tezpur
(1971-72) and Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup,
Guwahati (1973-75). Became life Member of
the Indian Institute of Public
Administration (IIPA) New Delhi. |
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Deputy Secretary/Director,
Ministry of Defence, Government of India,
New Delhi. |
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| 1980-82 |
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Secretary for all
Departments under the Chief Secretary and
also Home Secretary, Government of Assam |
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| 1982-84 |
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Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow. Was
also member, Assam Planning Board during
this period. |
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| 1984-89 |
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Joint Secretary to the
Government of India, Ministry of Steel and
Mines, New Delhi. Was also Chairman and
Managing Director, Hindustan Copper Limited
for one year. |
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| 1989-90 |
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Queen Elizabeth Fellow,
Oxford University, U.K |
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| 1990-92 |
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Agricultural Production
Commissioner and Special Commissioner and
Special Secretary, Government of Assam,
Agriculture. Panchayat and Rural
Development, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry
Department, Dispur, Guwahati. Was awarded
Governor of Assam Gold Medal in 1991 for
outstanding service in Assam. |
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| 1992-93 |
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Joint Secretary and later
Additional Secretary to the Government of
India, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi.
Devised regional planning and Development
models in tribal areas. |
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| 1993-95 |
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Additional Secretary,
Ministry of Environment and Forests,
Government of India, New Delhi, Chairman of
the National Committee on Bio-diversity
Conservation. Asia Representative on Ramar
Convention on Wetlands, Gland, Switzerland.
Director, Indian School of Forest
Management, Bhopal for one year. Life Member
of the Society for Promotion of Wasteland
Development (SPWD), New Delhi. |
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| 1995-97 |
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Union Culture Secretary,
Became Life Member of the Indian National
Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)
organized global level Golden Jubilee
celebrations of India’s Independence. Set up
National Culture Fund. |
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| 1997-99 |
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Union Home Secretary,
Secretary, Justice, Government of India and
Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir Affairs,
Government of India. Recipient of Gulzarilal
Nanda Award for the year 1998 for
outstanding public service in India from the
President of India. |
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| 1999-02 |
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Executive Director, The
World Bank and its Affiliates representing
India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
Founder Member of the Board of Governors of
Development Gateway Foundation (DGF) and
member, Global Environment Facility (GEF),
Washington D.C. |
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15 Aug. 02 to 8th July
2008 |
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A variety of honorary
academic and governmental assignments
including (i) Chancellor of the Central
Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath
Deemed to be University; (ii) Chief Editor
of the South Asia Series on “Perspectives on
Economics, Technology and Governance” of
Oxford University Press, New York; (iii)
Chairman, National Commission for
Economically Backward Classes Government of
India and (iv) Mahatma Gandhi National
Fellow.
Was presented the first Man of Letters Award
set-up by Subabh International, a social
service organization by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama on June 11, 2003 at New Delhi. |
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| 9th July 2008 onwards |
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Governor of Sikkim |
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| Publications Books |
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(i) Threads Woven: Ideals ,
Principles & Administration, LBS Guwahati,
1975; (ii) The Indian National Congress and
Cultural Renaissance, Allied Publishers ,
New Delhi 1987 (iii) The Problem of Change:
A Study of North-East India, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 1987; (iv)
India’s Culture: the State , the Arts and
Beyond-Oxford University Press, New Delhi
1998; and (v) Bahudha and the post-9/11
World; Oxford University Press, New Delhi,
2008
Also Chief Editor of The Millennium Book on
New Delhi, Oxford University Press, New
Delhi, 2001. |
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Published more than one
hundred articles, monographs, memorial
lectures and book-notes and reviews on
themes of Culture, Poverty, Ecology and
Public Administration in India and abroad.
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| Present Address |
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Raj Bhavan
Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Phone : (03592) 202400, 202410
Fax: 202742 Email: governor-skm@nic.in |
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Governors of Sikkim |
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Shri. B.B. Lal
16-05-1975 to
09-01-1981 |
Shri. H.J.
H. Taliyarkhan
10-01-1981 to
17-06-1984 |
Shri. Prabhakar
Rao
18-06-1984 to
30-05-1985 |
Shri. B. N. Singh
31-05-1985 to
20-11-1985 |
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Shri. T. V.
Rajeshwar
21-11-1985 to
01-03-1989 |
Shri. S. K.
Bhatnagar
02-03-1989 to
07-02-1990 |
Shri. R. H.
Tahalani
08-02-1990 to
20-09-1994 |
Shri. P. Shiv
Shanker
21-09-1994 to
11-11-1995 |
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Shri. K. V.
Raghuntha Reddy
12-11-1995 to
09-02-1996 |
Shri. Chaudhary
Randhir Singh
10-02-1996 to
17-05-2001 |
Shri. Kidar
Nath Sahani
18-05-2001 to
25-10-2002 |
Shri. V. Rama Rao
25-10-2002 to
24-10-2007 |
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Shri. R. S. Gavai
13-07-2006 to
12-08-2006 |
Shri. Sudarshan
Agarwal
25-10-2007 to
08-07-2008 |
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